The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-12-24

under contract to labor. The Rev. Walpole
warren had already got warmed in his
American nest when he succeeded in Great
ing sensation which may gile him his nit
timus without the aid of the Government
Alta meeting of the Young Peoples As
sociation at the Church of the Holy Trinity |
he pitched into Irvings Faust and gave
him Hail Columbia, then he went for dane
ing and Church fairs, and in his raphsody
he slid off into Sunday visiting and Sunday
night courting lie might have cut the
tail from our glorious Eagle and have bust
ed the Declaration of Independence; he
might have declared George Washington a
myth and his little hatchet fable; these
things we could have stood with Christian
forlitude, consoling ourselves like Coriolan-
MS with the hought that "There is world
elsewhere" but we warn this imported
minister that he must not trench upon the
dearest privilege of an American citizen
to court his girl on Sunday night. 1t may
not be the prevailing fashion in England,
but here on the Island Of Manhattan II has
been the universal custom from the DAYS
of Peter Stuyyesant and Anneke Jahns; we
haye all been there and our fathers and
mothers before us and we know it is good,
and we are not going to have our faith
shaken in a national institution, honored
and revered, by an imported minister who
may possibly be sent back home as con-
traband ljborer. When the minister asked
a show of hands at the close of his speech
for those who agreed with him in senti.
ment. only six rose out of large congre
cation and the preacher felt as though he
was wraDt in a we blanket. ----
We have had decided sensation thi,
week in musical circles i'm the shape of
whstling woman. We have had singer
and players, and dancers and artists by tn,
dozen, but this is the only whistler, an,
she can whistle, l tell you. The othe
night at Mrs. Ogden Goelets, she nearl,
took the roof off of the house The canar.
birds all stopped whistling to listen to her
and it was reported that Mrs. Goelet
favorite mocking bird Daisy, died of
broken heart next day. Be hat as it may
! she has whistied herself into favor witt
{ the Vanderbilts, the Astors, and all of on
7 7 creme de Ia creme, and has more engage
ments on her hands than she can fill. Sh
T. has had thirty-seyen offers of marriage i
y the last week, but as there is legal moi
= gage on the property in the shape of a yer
healthy looking husband, she can't accer
: without violating the law, and her husban
>, is as much delighted with her whistle a
II anybody else. The moral of our recent el
perience is-if you have son whom yo
" wish to get on in the world teach him [
:, box-then like the Right Honorable Joh
y L. Sullivan, he may hob-nob with H. R. 1
! The Prince of Wales, and take dejmi,
III la .forchetto with the Coldstream Guard
io If you have daughter whom you low
teach her to whistle-then the Astors, IL
% Vanderbilts and Goelets may take her N
~ and her pathway through life will be strew
with roses.
The people who picture to themselvt
Herr Most as an ugly Gorgon whom nobot
" Freheit Office, when he got out on bal
= after being sentenced to the penitentiai
~ l admit, that Most is not handsome, III
c does he smell like altar of roses, but as |
" entered his Office, as pretty a girl as yc
- ever laid your eyes on, ran up to hin
~ threw her arms about his neck, and ga
him a round half dozen hearty smack
She no sooner let 90 of him, than anoth
~ :, rushed up and took hug, and it seemed
,'' :, do her good. Mos took them as th
came, men and women, and they had
" grand hug all around; then the beer W
~ called on, and lines of empty kegs the ne
~ morning testified the strength of their d
= votion, and their hatred of the bloat,
Nv arstocrats.
od The anti-civil service people who beliey
10. '"That to the victors belong the spoils
10 are in a broad grin-for fellow passed
I'd civil service examination in Brooklyn la
on week with a rating of 97 1-2 per cent. WI
II can neither read or write. Hurrah
"A civil service
'O' BROADBRIM.